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Winchester XR's now available for 20 gauge

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So apparently on another forum the 20 gauge XR's aren't as spectacular as in 12. And can't locate anyhow. Back to searching for Federal heavyweight 7's or TSS hand loads Mind you field loads of 7.5's in daughters 20 are the nuts at 30 yards. Not even sure why I'm attempting to find anything else. I just need to do my part of getting ole Tom inside 30 and let daughter do the rest. Off to polish barrels now


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12 minutes ago, growalot said:

Can't link it but Dr woods did his yearly turkey patenting thickest week. He used the new XR' s...wow!

Assuming he shot the 12 gauge loads ? I plan on doing some patterning soon with a few different loads out of both our guns. I'll post up some pics and our results.

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No ..he did those last year which is why I sent a letter to Winchester telling them they missed the boat not doing 20 's as well...me and a bunch of others.

He bought a new 20ga and patterned the new 20's.  ...you should watch it.  He was very honest on the difficulties of shooting them close range without a scoped shot gun due to pattern tightness.

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16 minutes ago, growalot said:

No ..he did those last year which is why I sent a letter to Winchester telling them they missed the boat not doing 20 's as well...me and a bunch of others.

He bought a new 20ga and patterned the new 20's.  ...you should watch it.  He was very honest on the difficulties of shooting them close range without a scoped shot gun due to pattern tightness.

I emailed Winchester a few times on saying "need XR's in 20 gauge"  Never got a response either. After milling around on Oldgobbler site where only but a few were able to pick up XR's in 20 gauge the consensus is they can't hold a candle to Federal Heavyweight #7's. HVyWT only 2nd to TSS handloads. Some serious and I mean serious turkey killers over there run and gun with the lighter gun in 20 and claim they lose nothing by shooting these over the 12.

Although in 12 gauge in my experience XR's are bar none the craziest tightest shooting turkey hammer I've ever shot. Totally agree on shooting at close birds with chance at missing them as pattern is too tight.

Going to test a few 3.5 " #5's with 2 1/8 ounce at 1050 fps compared to the 3.5 " #5's with 2 oz at 1200 fps.

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Never been a fan of Federals...I should say my Browning wasn't..big time jamming/ ejection  issue. Why I went to Breneke slugs Then Remington Bird..started during Winchester turkey loads  couple of years ago..Removing yt? on intros before that....really? Try that again Remington nitro's before that.

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